YANSS 333 - Selective Perception - Jay Van Bavel
From You Are Not So Smart by You Are Not So Smart
February 16, 2026 · 38 min
About this episode
Dr. Jay Van Bavel discusses how selective perception can lead to different interpretations of the same event.
How can two people watch the same video yet see two different things? How can two people witness the same event but arrive at two different truths about what they witnessed? How can the same evidence lead people to drastically different realities? In this episode, Dr. Jay Van Bavel at NYU explains.
People in this episode
Host: You Are Not So Smart
Guest: Jay Van Bavel
Topics covered
- perception
- truth
- cognition
- psychology
- evidence
Keywords
- selective perception
- cognition
- truth
- psychology
- evidence
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: NYU
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